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REFRIGERATOR.

No. 585,313. Patented June 29, 1897.

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T ATENT IRVING S. HART, OF WVAVERLY, NEIV YORK.

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 585,313, dated June 29,1897.

Application filed February 19, 1897. Serial No. 624,164. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRVING S. HART, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residin g at Waverly, in the county of Tioga and State of NewYork, have invented a new and useful Refrigerator, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvementsin refrigerators, and hasfor its object to provide a refrigerator of a simple and inexpensivenature, which shall be especially adapted for use by grocers, butchers,and oth ers, being provided with a storage-chamber to hold goods forstorage in convenient posi tion for removal.

The invention consists in a refrigerator comprising a body having anice-chamber and a storage-chamber,an ice-pan in the ice-chamber, aremovable cross-piece extending across the upper part of thestorage-chamber, a revoluble. shaft mounted vertically in thestoragechamber, and a shelf carried by said shaft in saidstorage-chamber, said shaft having its upper end journaled in saidcross-piece so that when the cross-piece is removed the shaft and shelfmay be removed likewise.

The invention also contemplates certain novel features of theconstruction, combination, and arrangement of the various parts of theimproved refrigerator, wherebycertain important advantages are attainedand the device is made simpler, cheaper, and other wise better adaptedand more convenient for use, all as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in theclaims.

In order that my improvements may be the better understood, I have shownin the accompanying drawings a refrigerator constructed according to myinvention, in which drawings- Figure 1 is a perspective view of therefrigerator, showing the door of the ice-chamber opened and the ice-panpartly drawn out. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken through therefrigerator in a plane extending transversely to the ice-pan. Fig. 3 isa horizontal section taken through the refrigerator in the planeindicated by the line a a in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detached detail viewshowing the crosspiece, which extends across the upper part of thestorage-chamber, together with the doors of the ice-chamber andstorage-chamber carried thereby. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspectiveView showing the drip-pan and the channel in the ice-chamber doorconnecting therewith. 1

In the views, 1 indicates the lower part of the refrigerator, whichconstitutes the storage-chamber, this part 1 having double walls in theusual way and being of rectangular form, and 2 represents the upper partof the refrigerator, constituting the ice-chamber, also constructed withdouble walls, these parts 1 and 2 being formed separately and beingadapted to be set one upon the other.

The part 2 is of less width than the part 1 and is set upon the rearportion of the part 1. The bottom of the ice-chamber being open affordsdirect communication with the storage-chamber. At opposite sides of thestorage-chamber are arranged cleats 3, which are provided at or near thecenter of each side with recesses a to receive the opposite ends of theremovable cross-piece 5, extending across the upper part of thestorage-chamber, and having, hinged to its front side or edge, a door 6,arranged to close the upper side of the storage-chamber in front of theice-chamber, said door fitting down flush with the edges of the part 1,as shown in Fig. 1

To the rear edge of the cross-piece 5 is also hinged a door 7, similarto the door 6, but arranged to close the front of the part 2 oricechamber, which is also provided with vertical cleats 8 at oppositesides, against which cleats said door '7 fits. The door 7 of theice-chamber is arranged when opened to lie down flat upon the projectingfront portion of the storage-chamber, as shown in Figs. 1 and 5.

At the center of the bottom of the storagechamber 1 is arranged a metalplate or bearing 9, having an opening or recess to receive a woodenblock 10, wherein is stepped the lower end of a revoluble shaft or post11, extending vertically in the storage-chamber and having its upper endjournaled in a bearing at the center of the cross-piece 5, as shown at12 in Fig. 2. The shaft or post 11 carries at its lower part a circularhorizontal shelf or table 13, standing near the floor of thestorage-chamber and braced by means of rods 14:, or other devices,connecting its outer part with the upper part of the shaft or post 11.In this way it will be seen that the shelf or table 13 forms aconvenient support for goods, such as butter,'&c., the packages of whichmay be arranged, as shown at 15, between said rods 1%, and when theshelf or table 13 turns such goods will be brought in position under thedoor (5, through which door said goods may be removed and replaced.

In order to avoid the necessity of opening the door 6 and exposing thewhole of the interior of the storage-chamber to the external temperaturewhen it is desired to remove buta small quantity of goods from thestoragechamber, I provide said door 6 with a central door-opening,closed by a door 16. (Seen in the detail view, Fig. 4.)

At opposite sides of the lower part of the ice-chamber 2 are arrangedcleats 17, which form tracks whereon runs the tray 18, carrying theice-pan, which, as shown in Fig. 1, is made with a back wall 19 ofconsiderably greaterheight than its front wall 20, and when said tray 18is pushed back into the ice-chamber in the position shown in dottedlines in Fig. 2 its rear edge will en gage cleats 21, which are arrangedat the back of the ice-chamber and which form stops which hold the trayand ice-pan away from the back wall of the icechamber, so as to form aflue 22, in which the warm air from the storage-chamber ascends andpasses over the high back wall 19 of the ice-pan. A space or flue 23 isalso provided at the front of the ice-pan and tray, in which fine thecold air from the lower front wall 20 of the ice-pan descends into thestoragechamher, so as to refrigerate the goods stored therein.

The inner face of the door 7 of the icechamber, or the upper facethereof, as seen in Fig. 1, is provided at opposite sides withtransverse track-sections 24, alined with the tracks formed of thecleats 17 in the ice-chamber, and the ice-pan is preferably connectedfixedly with the tray 18, so as to move therewith, and is provided witha central handle 25, so that it may be pulled forward out of theice-chamber, as shown in Fig. 1.

The tray 18 may, if desired, be provided with rollers which engage androll on the tracks and with projections 27, which engage between thetrack-sections 2e and cleats 17, so as to guide the ice-pan and tray andprevent lateral displacement thereof.

Along one side of the storage-chamber, beneath the cleat 17 at the sideof the ice-chamher, is arranged a drip-pan 28,connecting with awaste-pipe 29, leading outside the storagechamber and adapted to receivewater from a waste-outlet 30 in the ice-pan when said pan is in theposition shownin Fig. 2. When the ice-pan and tray 18 are drawn out, asshown in Fig. 1, the waste-outlet 3O discharges into a gutter or channel31, formed in the inside of the door 7 and arranged to discharge intothe drip-pan, as shown in Fig. 5.

By this construction it will be seen that when the door 7 is opened thetray 18 and the pan carried thereon may be conveniently withdrawn topermit the pan to be filled with ice, and at the same time the waterresulting from the melting of the ice will be collected and returned tothe drip-pan and led away in the same manner as when the ice-pan is inthe ice-chamber and the door 7 closed.

From the above description of my improvements it will be seen that theinvention is of an extremely simple and inexpensive nature and isespecially well adapted for the purposes for which it is designed, andit will also be evident from the above description that the invention issusceptible of considerable modification without material departure fromits principles and spirit, and for this reason I do not wish to beunderstood as limiting myself to the precise form and arrangement of theparts herein set forth.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. A refrigeratorcomprising a body having its upper part of less width than its lowerpart, the front wall of the upper part being open and the top wall ofthe lower part being also open, a removable cross-bar extending acrossthe top of the lower part at the base of the upper part of the body, anddoors hinged to said cross-bar and arranged to close the openings in thefront wall of the upper part and in the top of the lower part of thebody, substantially as specified.

2. A refrigerator comprising a body having its upperpart of less widththan its lower part, the top wall of the lower part being provided withan opening, a crossbar removably arranged across the top of the lowerpart of the body, a door to close the opening in the top of said lowerpart of the body, a vertical shaft mounted to turn in the lower part ofthe body and having its upper end held to turn at the center of saidremovable cross-bar, and a circular shelf carried on said shaft andadapted to support goods, said goods being carried, when the shaftturns, beneath the opening in the top of the lower part of the body,substantially as specified.

3. A refrigerator comprising a body having a storage-chamber at itslower part and an ice-chamber in its upper part, a door leading into theice-chamber, tracks at opposite sides of the door, an ice-pan movablealong the tracks, and having its front and back walls of differentheights, said ice-pan being of less width than the ice-chamber, andstops to limit the movement of the icepan, said stops operating to holdthe ice-pan with its front and back walls separated from the front andback walls of the icechamber by spaces forming fiues leading down intothe storage-chamber, substantially as specified.

at. A refrigerator comprising a body having a storage-chamber and anice-chamber, said ice-chamber having an opening in its wall, a door toclose said opening, said door being arranged to stand in horizontalposition when opened, tracks in the ice-chamber on opposite sides of thedoor-openin g, an ice-pan movable along the tracks, and track-sectionson the inner face of the door adapted, when the door is opened, to alinewith the tracks inside the ice-chamber, substantially as specified.

5. A refrigerator comprising a body having a storage-chamber and anice-chamber, said ice-chamber having an opening in its wall; a door toclose said opening, said door being arranged to stand in horizontalposition when opened, tracks in the ice-chamber on opposite sides of thedoor-opening, a drip-pan alined with the tracks, an ice-pan movablealong the tracks and provided with a waste-ontlet arranged to dischargeinto said drip-pan, and

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as I my own I have heretoaffiXed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

IRVING S. HART. lVitnesses:

BENJ. RUMsEY, W. K. HART.

